Tyre change = Front brake oddness.

eidolon

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I've just had a pair of tyres fitted to the Street Triple but when I got it back I noticed that the front brake lever is further away from the bar than normal. I have big hands but the lever is literally on my fingertips whereas before it was definitely closer. I have adjustable levers but they're set on the closest setting, if I adjust them the opposite way I can't even reach the lever!

What's that all about? How can changing tyres have this effect?
 
The dial is adjusted to the closest setting, if I adjust it the opposite way I can't even reach it (and I have long fingers!)
 
were the brakes fully up before as in sharp? they would have compressed the pads slightly to get the wheel out ect

so maybe doing that has sharpened them up from before moving the lever out a bit?

idk whatelse it could be other than bent lever or bars/clipon ect
 
What wazza said really I think. I'd think perhaps they pushed the pads back to remove the wheel, more so if the disks are even a little worn (to clear the edge). The lever should return normal once used/compressed again.

Only thing I can think of without the bike being dropped and the lever bent for any reason.
 
makes no difference what they do to the brakes, the lever should be in the same place when the brakes aren't on.
any work on the brakes would only maybe change how far it comes back to the bars not where the lever sits.
sound like they have bent it somehow
 
Did you not question it with the garage when you got it back? It's obvioudly something you notice immediately.
 
ShakenNstirred said:
makes no difference what they do to the brakes, the lever should be in the same place when the brakes aren't on.

sound like they have bent it somehow
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Duh... You're quite right, sorry. No reason in the world for the lever to not be in the same place other than it being probably bent.

The lever stop/rest should be the same whatever position the pads are at! Is it any co-incidence that the levers are adjustable though? ie: to OP, could there be some weird little issue with that somehow?

(...they might have dropped it?)
 
TripleT said:
Did you not question it with the garage when you got it back? It's obvioudly something you notice immediately.
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It was 6pm on a Friday night when I collected the bike and it was pouring with rain so I was taking it really easy on the new tyres so I only really noticed the following day.

I'd say with 100% certainty that they haven't dropped it, nothing is bent or scratched or anything like that.
Could it be related to the brake fluid level or something like that? Maybe something odd happened with the callipers and they got air in the system/had to top it up?
 
no the fluid level and the callipers have nothing to do with were the lever sits when not in use, only how far the lever comes back to the bars when you use it.
even with no fluid or even a brake line the lever will always rest in the same position because of the return spring on the piston in the master cylinder
 
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Some levers can move right back to stop them snapping when you come off, when you put the levers back in what you think is the right position you can get this problem, if you have a closer look at the levers there should be a barrel type thing with a hole in it, a sort of push rod inserts into this hole, if it's not then your lever will be quite a distance away from the bars, i hope i've explained this ok, lol.
 
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